New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-06-09
LITERARY NOTES.

.att,on in two volumes of Walter SCOTS poeti
Ell works Is being prepared by Professor n'A' AA0
editor will prefix critical essay
Mr.. Noel Hartley-who, as May Laffan' wrote the
,,r,,,Isnt irish novel; Hogan NJ Pts about to pub
~ nav .torv entitled Ismays Children" II as good
A her former book 1t will be welcome addition 10 inc
novels of the year. Hogan, NJ. p" rs to BIO found
the only vivid picture we have Of modern life and society
In Ireland.
Alctter written by John Wesley while travelling IN
Ireland was lately sold In London In II nc say'. ~
natural Sweetness of Temper, for Courtesy anu nost
tal,ty have never seen any people IKE tue ir'n' "
deed all converse with are oniy Ehsns" 80. ~" D.
into another Soil And they are menoeo ny INC ~
moval having left all their Roughness ana surihess
h.h,nd ,h.m They receive tho Word Of God with all
(ladness and Readiness Of Mind The Danger Is tnat u
sbould not take deep root that 1t should be a. Seed a
ing on stoney ground But there not the same
in England Do not you find 1t SO IN London
Mr. A. Bronson Aicott can no longer hold pen and IN
revising his diaries, dictates his changes ne Is So"
ing the summer with his daughter at Melrose'
NJ. Petros Papageorgiu. Greek scholar living IN
pbiippopolis has discovered ancient manuscript
..in,nr messages of Artstotles works. The manu-
.cpt ia believed to be Of the fourteenth century, lana
conssts of $50 pages The manuscript Is In exceen.
preseryaton tho vellum being clean ana strong ana
ALI the letters being perfectly lcgibe 1t bears
annoations which probably Of tho fifteenth century
M Papageorgu is comparing the manuscripts
with existing editions Of Arstotes works, and he mas
that the text differs in many important passages
from these editions, and notably from Daots "noi
IA In general use the Continent
rMr Clark Russels new novel has the highly exciting
title of The Frozen Pirate"
n MR., Alice Williams Brotherton's poems-which nave
appeared in various English and American magazines-
have been collected and published in neat volume py
G. II. Kerr & Co., of Chicago.
eth. Physical Proportions of the Typical Man is the
title of the paper which Professor Sargent has prepared
for the July Sribner The standard he gives Is paS0u
On the measurements Of ten thousand individuals
The French have been seized by the craze for bograph
teal SERIES number of volumes bearing the general
title of Les Grands Ecrivains Francois are IN course
of preparation The books will resemble IN character
the series of English Men Of Letters" NJ Iaine VIII
deal with sainteBeuve; NJ Paul Will write upon
Balzac; NJ Leon Say has chosen Turgot; ana. 'lc'or
Cousn will be the subject Of Jules simons book.
The mention Of the English series reminds us that Mr.
Sidney Colyin's Keats is announced for immediate
publication
Andrew Lang, ia the course OF his clever paper on
9Iiter.rv Plag srism" in "The Contemporary
Review" tells these stories; 50
A novelist once visited the writer In high spirits
Certain events of most extraordinary nS'aro "ar
Incredible If ventured to narrate them NY visNoi
meant to make them the subject OF story when ne
sketcbed " But you can't" said "thats the plot
of .Ferdinand's Folly" and l named book when
had lust arrived sub luminis lie had not
heard OF Ferdinands Folly" but he went away sad,
for he was q young man that had been rooDed OF
great opportunity But he was presently consoied py
Receiving q letter from another author gentleman
nj repute in more than one branch OF literature Il
have lust read your 'Daisy's Dream" said this
author and find that there 10 scene IN IL which
ia also in nv unpublished work, 'Psamathoe." lie
then described the scene which certainly did appear
of glazing orgioality-it anything could be original
aNobody will believe two people could have invented
this: bot What am to do l" said the second untortu-
nate author and indeed, do not know what he hio
or whether PsamathOe" was punished by an early
doom for her unconscious plagiarism The study OF
the diffusion of popular tales seems to show that there
"a mn incident which may not be invented over and
over again-in Siberia Samoa. These condolences
will also occur in civilized literature; but some
examples are SO astonishing that the small NV OF
moralsts are certain to shout " Stop thief On the
whole an author thus Anticipated had better stop
before they shout but it the merest accident that
gave pause to the novelists OF these anecdotes
Alas unconscious of their doom, the little victims
might have published
notice A novelist invented and described to me
situation which emphatcally new, because IL
rested on the existence certain scientific insru-
meut which was new also. The author las maturing
the plot when he cnanced TO read review o. so,s
new work Il never saw 1t, and have forgotten It's
name) in which the incident ana the instrument APP
reared Now may this author write bis own tae,
or NAV he mott II he does land If it succeeds he VIII
be hailed as an abandoned rogue and We 1t is his own
invention Probably 1t ia wiser to "endure and 40,
stan .: other rise the "lynx-eyed detectiyes Will
bring ont their old leaning, and we shall be tod once
more how Ben Jonson stole Drink to me only with
thine eyesn from-Pisistratus This lately learned
from newspaper